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thecodeboyon Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

Rome Before Rome by Philip Matyszak

thecodeboyon Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world

I find it wonderful that a human from around 1000 generations ago created art on a now extinct animals tusk. In a way they're able to communicate with us in such a distant future. Makes me wonder what we're leaving behind.

thecodeboyon Fifty years of the personal computer operating system

For those who don't know, Gary Kildall was also a presenter in the PBS TV show "Computer Chronicles". [1]

I've been enjoying watching episodes of this show I found on YouTube. [2]

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Chronicles

[2] - https://m.youtube.com/@ComputerChroniclesYT

thecodeboyon Checkbox

Here's an explanation:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2445:_Checkbox

thecodeboyon Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email

How has Skiff's email deliverability been?

I'm curious if your emails go to spam more frequently, being a smaller player in an established hegemony.

You have a generous free tier which may attract spammers. How do you deal with IP reputation?

thecodeboyon A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020)

I feel bad for the beetle in this experiment. It must have spent a lot of its energy reserve to emerge out of the frog, probably to have been swallowed again.

thecodeboyon My Netlify account has been suspended, I don’t know why?

Netlify allows users to register domains on their platform.

Wonder if suspended users have a way to transfer their domains to a different registrar.

It seems one should use a registrar whose primary business is selling domains, and host their content elsewhere.

thecodeboyon Working from Home and Realizing What Matters

https://archive.is/9DdVv

thecodeboyon A Readable Techcrunch Feed

This is cool. I like text based news sites like http://text.npr.org

I feel it makes me more mindful while scrolling.

Is there a link to the code?

thecodeboyon Distractions Cause Bad Code (2018)

I agree. Ever since I started working remotely, I've seen an increase in the quality of work I produce. This is partly due to having a quiet environment at home. Also partly due to having more energy to put into work because of having no commute.

I do think people should disable unnecessary notifications and setup blocks of focus time on their calendars.

thecodeboyon Protohackers: Server Programming Challenge

First I wrote the smoke test with Java, but it failed due to the timeout. Then I tired with Go and it passed.

I'd like to try the other questions with Java, but for that the timeout needs to be increased.

Anyone else tried with Java? How was your experience?

thecodeboyon Google Calendar Is Down

404 from India as well.

thecodeboyon Ask HN: Best way to introduce programming to a 5 year old?

I started programming when I was 6 with Logo at school. Moving the turtle to where I wanted made me smile. :) At the end of the day, it's about having fun doing programming.

I would recommend the same. #Logo

thecodeboyon Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?

Prejudice. The same reason NASA janitors aren't glorified as the astronauts are.

thecodeboyon Ask HN: Does HN allow account deletions (under GDPR or otherwise)?

Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com

thecodeboyon Standard Ebooks – volunteer driven, not-for-profit, open source and free

I'd like to thank you for the wonderful work. I'm glad this website exists.

thecodeboyon Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?

I'm Indian. I became fluent in English watching Cartoon Network when I was around 6 years old.

I remember watching The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, etc. Thanks a lot cartoons!

thecodeboyon Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?

The Bible

thecodeboyon Ask HN: Ok. I have the MVP. I have a small feedback. What is next?

I built Slyme (https://5ly.me) and couldn't find any usable payment platforms. I live in India and couldn't automate payments from the US. This is really a big problem. Stripe is expanding to other countries in the future though.

thecodeboyon Nuklear: A single-header ANSI C GUI library

Wow! This is the first time I'm seeing a project having two licenses. MIT and unlicense. You can choose whichever you want.

thecodeboyon How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code

Too harsh a penalty I'd say.

thecodeboyon How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code

I found a pony in Apple’s iBoot source code.

https://medium.com/aishik/i-found-a-pony-in-apples-iboot-sou...

thecodeboyon I found a pony in Apple's iBoot source code

Oh that's interesting! Thanks for sharing.

thecodeboyon Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names

You can access Sci-Hub at https://5ly.me/scihub .

thecodeboyon Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names